seize up

英 [siːz ʌp]

美 [siːz ʌp]

（身体某部分因紧张或上了年纪而）发僵，无法动弹; （发动机等）停止运转，发生故障

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB (身体某部分因紧张或上了年纪而)发僵，无法动弹
  If a part of your bodyseizes up, it suddenly stops working, because you have strained it or because you are getting old.
  1. After two days' exertions, it's the arms and hands that seize up, not the legs...
     两天的辛苦劳累过后，发僵的是胳膊和双手，腿倒没事。
  2. We are all born flexible but as we grow older, we tend to seize up a little.
     我们刚生下来时身体都很灵活，但随着年龄的增长，手脚会变得有些僵硬。
• PHRASAL VERB (发动机等)停止运转，发生故障
  If something such as an engineseizes up, it stops working, because it has not been properly cared for.
  1. She put diesel fuel, instead of petrol, into the tank causing the motor to seize up.
     她往油箱里加了些柴油而不是汽油，致使发动机发生故障。

双语例句

• Still, the fad machine is unlikely to seize up any time soon, and eternal vigilance is required to monitor its output.
  不过，制造时尚的机器任何时候都不太可能很快失灵，我们需要对它的产物永远保持警惕。
• The story is the same in almost every developed country: the bursting of the real estate bubble has caused property values to plummet, credit markets to seize up, and deal-flow to grind to a halt.
  几乎每个发达国家的情形都一样：房地产泡沫破裂，导致房产价值暴跌、信贷市场失灵以及交易日趋枯竭。
• After two days 'exertions, it's the arms and hands that seize up, not the legs
  两天的辛苦劳累过后，发僵的是胳膊和双手，腿倒没事。
• The engineers, being a conservative bunch, thought that after a few thousand steps the motor would seize up.
  那些工程师们是一伙保守人士，认为移动几千步以后电机就会失灵。
• The Chinese leadership is scared to death about the consequences if the domestic credit markets were to seize up as they have in other places, according to people familiar with the debate.
  据一位知情人士表示，假如中国信贷市场象其它地方那样冻结，中国领导层对由此产生的后果是会吓坏的。
• After a couple of hours of working on the figures his brain started to seize up.
  处理数据几小时后他的脑子开始发蒙了。
• Your back may seize up.
  你的背部可能会转动困难。
• Its problem is not a lack of resources, but the political unwillingness of Member States to finance each other when markets seize up.
  它的问题不是缺乏资金，而是在市场失灵时各成员国缺乏互相融资的政治意愿。
• In1998 there was the Russian default crisis and then there was some seize up of that maybe resembles what is happening now.
  998年，俄罗斯拖欠债务危机爆发，那时有一些失灵，那个状况有些像现在发生的状况。
• We are all born flexible but as we grow older, we tend to seize up a little.
  我们刚生下来时身体都很灵活，但随着年龄的增长，手脚会变得有些僵硬。